Tethered Shooting Software Entangle 0.6 Released [Ubuntu 14.04 PPA]

Last updated: May 4, 2014

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Entangle, a Tethered Camera Control & Capture tool for Linux, now is at version 0.6.0. The launchpad PPA has been updated for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty.

What’s new in Entangle 0.6.0:

  • Add a demonstration plugin for setting up a captive photo box display mode
  • Switch to use Python3 for plugin engine instead of JavaScript
  • Use GTK dark theme
  • Require GNOME symbolic icon theme to be installed
  • Switch to require lcms2 instead of lcms
  • Move application icon into a standard directory mandated to work with the appdata tools
  • Make manual focus work with Canon EOS cameras
  • Disable flickering progress bar in preview mode with Canon EOS cameras
  • Remove use of deprecated GTK methods/classes/constants
  • Remove use of gexiv2 method which is not long exported
  • Remove use of deprecated libpeas methods
  • Add GTK-DOC transfer annotations / docs to all methods
  • Avoid loosing camera capabilities on disconnect
  • Fix off by one in histogram tables causing memory corruption
  • Mark appdata / desktop files for translation
  • Fix typos in README file
  • Fix inverted tests when checking if range widget changed
  • Avoid storm of expose events due to auto-drawer widget
  • Avoid never ending circular update of controls causing errors in some camera modes
  • Add workaround for crazy D5100 camera serial number
  • Add customizable highlight/background for images
  • Avoid reference leak of windows preventing proper cleanup
  • Remove camera manual/about/driver help windows since it did not contain any info useful to users
  • Filter list of cameras in connect dialog to only those which support capture/preview
  • Don’t auto connect to cameras which don’t support capture or preview
  • Ensure parent window is set on dialogs to prevent them falling behind main window
  • Fix crash with latest GTK due to incorrect overriding of GtkApplication startup method
  • Update to cope with changed GExiv API version
  • Refreshed translations from transifex

Install Entangle in Ubuntu 14.04:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install entangle

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